hughman666
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So I've been mucking around for a while, Braumeister or not, that's been the question.
I dicked around with an urn but the concealed element killed any chance of a good rolling boil, plus 40L was just a bit too small if I wanted to occasionally do a double batch.
So I put together a shopping list and it came in at pretty much $500, give or take.
This is what I put together. Basically the pump draws wort from the bottom and returns it to the top of the mash. With a single batch the mash pot sits above the wort line so it's basically fly sparing the whole time.
A double batch will raise the wort line up to around halfway up the mash pot...
I need to mount the pump and thermostat...
The control box. Thermostat with switch on the side for the pump.
Inside without the malt pipe, you can see the false bottom (to keep hops etc out of the final dump into the fermenter(s)), element and thermowell.
I dicked around with an urn but the concealed element killed any chance of a good rolling boil, plus 40L was just a bit too small if I wanted to occasionally do a double batch.
So I put together a shopping list and it came in at pretty much $500, give or take.
This is what I put together. Basically the pump draws wort from the bottom and returns it to the top of the mash. With a single batch the mash pot sits above the wort line so it's basically fly sparing the whole time.
A double batch will raise the wort line up to around halfway up the mash pot...
I need to mount the pump and thermostat...
The control box. Thermostat with switch on the side for the pump.
Inside without the malt pipe, you can see the false bottom (to keep hops etc out of the final dump into the fermenter(s)), element and thermowell.